UNITY

“Our common welfare should come first: personal recovery depends upon AA unity.“

“Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.”

• Without unity, A.A dies.
• Individual liberty, yet great unity.
• Key to paradox: each AA’s life depends on obedience of spiritual principles.
• The group must survive or the individual will not.
• Common welfare comes first.
• How best to live and work together as groups.

Inventory Questions

Relevant Readings from As Bill Sees It might include:

#9:         Group and World-Wide Community

#73:      Two way Tolerance

#98:      Anger – Personal and Group Enemy

#125:    Look Beyond the Horizon

#155:    Built by the One and the Many

#220:    In Partnership

#249:    God’s Gifts

#302:    Comradeship in Peril

Eddie Rickenbacker